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si - , J V J "I i I J V ft WW PUBLISHES FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT COVERS THE MORNING FIELD ON THE LOW "l '0LUM2IA 88th YEAR. NO. 66. ASTORIA, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1203 PRICE FIVE CENTS MW, PEACE REIGNS III CONGRESS Message of President Received and Met With Great Applause TARIFF BILL NOT PRESENTEO Some Disappointment Wu Ftlt Ont Fact That Measure Was Not Brought In But Will Probably b Intorduced at Todayi Seeaion, WASHINGTON, D. G. March 16. In itriking contrail to thi seenei of confuiloti and disorder and tha aerlmonloui debate which marked tha opening da of the bottle the session today assumed Its wonted air of benignity. There was a general good-feeling among the members whose main topic of conversation was yesterdiy! fight over the rules. The anticipated message of the President wis received and met with prolonged applause from the Repub lican!. Some disappointment wis felt however over the fact that the tariff measure was not presented This Is expected to be done tomor row, Interest Is attached to the an nouncement mide by the ipeaker of the personnel of the committee on rules and committee on ways and means. Biennial lottery for seats wss conducted. The Payne tariff bill will be Intro duced in the House early tomorrow. In the meantime it will be reprinted. Alt the meetings of the sub-committee of Republican members were held today after Speaker Cannon had ap pointed the committee on ways and means and several chingci In the bill were mended to. The meeting was for the purpose of securing the approval of the new Republican member. Cushman of Washington, who hid no knowledge of the pro visions of the bill. The tppointment of Representative Cushman gives the Pacific Coast two representatives on the Republican side of the ways and means committee and leaves the Rocky Mountain seats without rep resentation. While Cushman had lit tle time to consider the bill his atti tude may have changed the measures considerably. The changes agreed on however are mainly In its phrase ology. Cushman represents a sec tion of the country which desires to Improve the commercial relations with Canada and especlaHy to secure a market for citrus fruits, olives, grapes and other commodities of per ishable character for which a reidy market ii needed. On the othr hand the lumber Interests are very large in CONFIRMS YOUNG AS POSTMASTER Portland Will Now Have New Officer to Take the Place of Postmaster Minto WASHINGTON, D. C, March 16. It took the United States Senate less than five minutes in executive ses sion this morning to confirm the nomination of John C. Young for Postmaster of Portland, which was filed yesterday by President Toft. The matter was taken up early in the session today, and the name of Bourne's man was sent through. PORTLAND, March 16,-When Informed this afternoon that the Sen ate had confirmed the appointment of John C. Young, as postmaster of Portland, John Minto, the present Incumbent, expressed no surprise at the news, but declined to make any comment thereon or give out any thing for publication, except to say that section and Cushman's attitude may have a material effect In regard to the lumber schedules. Numerous briefs have been submitted by Im portant interests In the Northwest to havng free iron ore and coal in com petition with Canadian coal in view has in part a reciprocity arrangement with Canada. Printed copies of the tariff bill, matrices and even the pa per remaining on the presses that were used to print the bill have been locked in the vaults of the printing office since 11:30 this morning. It was planned to bring in the bill to day, but it was desired to secure for it unanimous approval of the Repub lican members, making Cushmaa'i endorsement necessary. GUARD lill GEN. FINZER RECOMMENDS STATE ENCAMPMENT AT COLUMBIA'S MOUTIL PORTLAND, March 16.-H the recommendations of General W. E. Flnier, commander of the Oregon National Guard, are favorably acted upon by the War Department, seven companies of state infantry will be given a course in firing the big coast defense guns located at the mouth of the Columbia River. The War De partment has acted favorably on General Finicr's request that the First Company, Coast Artillery Re serves, located at Astoria, be allowed to spend a week or so this Summer t Fort Stevens, Or, and Fort Co lumbia. Wash. . Owing to the fact that Congress did not appropriate any fundi for a joint encampment of the regular troops and theNitional Guard, the Oregon soldiers will not go to Amer ican Lake this Summer. Instead of that hike, an encampment wilt be held somewhere in the State during July; But General Finier is doing all in his power to have the Depart ment allow seven companies of Ore gon infantry to practice about the forts that gusrd the approaches to the Columbia. So far, the Washing ton officials have not seemed to favor the move. LOST IN MOUNTAINS WINSTED, Conn., March 16--Earl II. Hotchktss, a captain In the signal corps of the Connecticut Na tional Guard, and manager of the Winstead division of the Southern New England Telephone Company, is believed to be lost on Wetmore Mountain, and a posse left here last night to search for him. He disap peared early yesterday morning. The chief of police and sheriff head ed a band of searchers who hoped to find Hotchkiss before he perished from the cold. that he would be prepared to vacate the office as soon aa his successor qunlied. Mr. Minto was appointed by Presi dent Roosevelt on July 1, 1904, and has proven one of the most efficient postmasters Portland has ever had. He has been at all times courteous and obliging to patrons of the insti tution, among whom he is exceeding ly popular. ' He succeeded F. A. Bancroft to the position, which car ries with it a salary of $6000 a year. It is not known as yet whether as sistant Postmaster Shipley, or Miss Daisy Stockton, private secretary to Mr. Minto, will be affected by the change, but the presumption is that both will have to go with their chief. SPECIAISESSI ADJOIIS Transacted the Business it Was Called Together for and Goes Home NORMALS MAKE LAST STAND Make Frantic Effort to Secure an Ap Appropriatlon For Maintenance Meeting of House Was Chiefly No table For the Scene of Disorder. ! SALEM, Or., March 16. -The 'special session at the legislature , called together by Governor Benson to re-enact a bill appropriating $340. 000 for improvements to state insti tution, adjourned tonight after two days' session. Save to accomplish the end for which it was called the special session did practically noth ing. Friends of the normal schools which failed to secure any appropria tions at the regular session, made strenuous efforts to secure one from the special session, but their efforts came to naught The resolution introduced yester day in the Senate endorsing former Senator Charles W. Fulton for the position of United States district judge recently created by ' Congress died in the committee. The commit tee acted favorably on the resolution, but was unable, it is stated, to secure sufficient assurances that the resolu tion would be adopted and withheld their report fearing a possible defeat might prejudice Mr. Fulton's case. The Senate finished all its work Monday night, but the House requir ed until tonight to bring the session to an end. The session today in the House was chiefly notable for the frequency of outburst of disorder. Members walked around the cham ber, carrying on conversation in tones so loud as to prevent the tran saction of business and only because the doors were locked were members kept front going home. When the recess was taken at supper time Speaker McArthur felt it necessary to call the roll and pledge the word 'of honor of each member to return for the night's session. EUD IJAY LOSE SUPREMACY OVER SEAS GERMANY SHOWS HER NEIGHBOR-GREAT BATTLESHIP DEVELOPMENT THERE LONDON, March 16. A dramatic revelation by Reginald McKenna. first lord of the admiralty, in parlia ment today, of Germany's extraordi nary development in her capacity to build big battleships rapidly, seems likely to mark a crisis in Great Brit ain's naval history. It is quite certain it will arouse and alarm the country as to the possibility of England's maintaining her naval supremacy. Its effect was electrical. Immediately after the debate on navy estimates J was cocluded, a hurried meeting was called of the house members com prising the."small navy" party at which the situation thus unexpectedly revealed was anxiously debated. No decision was reached but the speech es showed that little more would be heard on "cheese-psrring" so far as the navy is concerned. On the con trary it seems that the government will be urged by a majority of its own party to make the "conditional" program for additional Dreadnaughts an absolute building program. It be comes as Lord Balfour pointedly put it in today's speech, which greatly impressed the house, the question was CANAL REPORT MADE PUBLIC Chief Engineer of Commission De clare Lock Plan Best. WASHINGTON, D. C, March 16. In the report of the canal commis sion made public today, Colonel oGctbals, chairman and chief engi neer of the commission, declares that the lock canal at Panama according to the present plan is most desirable is well at the saving of time and money over the sea level plan. He ridiculed the predictions of the dis asted made by the government offic ials and others and challenges them to produce arguments to back up their claims. . Regarding the slip in the Gatun Dam last winter,, Colonel Goethals says it was unimportant and would have passed without notice had it not been for the fact that Charges River ood had covered portions of the railroad near the dam. He says a newspaper correspondent saw the chance for s story and attributed the flood to the "dropping of the dam into a subterranean lake under the dam and locks which another fakir had previously discovered." . HEAVIER RAILS COB t IE A. & C. DISPATCH , FROM PORTLAND TELLS OF THE SUMMER SERVICE. PORTLAND, March 16. -Heavy steel for the rebuilding of' the As toria & Columbia River Railroad line west of Astoria has been shipped from Chicago and should arrive here the latter part of the month. Imme diately upon its arrival work of tear ing up the light 50-pound rails and substituting the 75-pound ones will be commenced, and the work pushed forward so that it may be finished in time for the opening of the special Summer service to the beaches. With the rebuilding of the 10 or 12 miles from a point five or six miles west of Astoria to the terminus at Seaside the entire road from Port land to the sea will be equipped with heavy steel 75 pounds or heavier. This betterment will cost in the neighborhood of $40,000, allowing due credit for the value of the old rails, and will enable the Astoria & Colum bia River trains to maintain a 40- mile-an-hour schedule if necessary. When the line has been rebuilt first-class new equiment will be put into service for the Seaside Special, and the delay that has heretofore been necessary for changing the heavier to lighter engines at Astoria will be done away with. In the past the light construction of the road from Astoria to the beaches has re quired the lightest type of engines, light coaches and none too speedy a schedule, but this Summer the coast end of the road will be of just as heavy construction as any other part. The new Summer service to Sea side will be Inaugurated about June 27, and General Freight and Passen ger Agent H. M. Adams says it will be a finer train that the crack train which was so popular for the week end trips last year. He adds that it will be possible to maintain a much faster schedule should it be deemed expedient to cut the running time down below what it was in 1908. "Last year the service seemed to be very satisfactory to the public," said Mr. Adams today, "and by leav ing here at 2:20 o'clock Saturday af ternoon the cottagers and resorters were at the beaches in time for din ner, and could remain there until af ter dinner Sunday evening and get to Portland at 10:20. Inasmuch as most of the line has been entirely rebuilt in the last year or so, we will have as fine a roadbed as any line in the Northwest, and our new equipment will be in keeping with it." not one of maintaining a two hours' standard but of maintaining a one hour standing in rst class ships. "I am forced to admit," said' Balfour, "That now for the very first time in modern history we are face to face with a naval situation so new and dangerous that it is difficult for us to realize all its importrs." SEffDS MESSAGE TO COBS President Asks That Quick Ac tion be Made on Revision of Tariff BUSINESS INTEREST DEMAND Say it is of the Highest Importance That New Bill Should be Agreed Upon and Passed With as Much Speed as Possible. WASHINGTON, D. C, March 16. The reading of the President's mes sage to congress in favor of revising the tariff was the chief business be fore the Senate today. The message received careful attention, after which the Senate adjourned until Friday. The message was as follows: "To the Senate and House of Rep resentativesI have convened the congress in this extra session in or der to enable it to give immediate consideration to the revision of the Dingley tariff act Conditions affect ing production manufacture and bus iness generally have so changed in the last 12 yean as to require a re adjustment and revision of the im port duties imposed by that act. More than this, the present tariff act, with the other sources of Govern ment revenue, does not furnish in come enough to pay the authorized expenditures. By July 1 next the ex cess of expenditures over receipts for the current fiscal year will equal $100,000,000 "The successful party in the late election is pledged to a revision of the tariff. The country and the busi ness community especially expect it. The prospect of a change in the rates of import duties always causes a sus pension or halt in business because of the uncertainty as to the condi tions to be made and their effect It is therefore of the highest import ance that the new bill should be agreed upon and passed with as much speed as possible consistent with its due and thorough consideration. For these reasons, I have deemed the present to be an extraordinary occa sion within the meaning of the Con stitution, justifying and requiring the calling of an extra session. "In my inaugural address I stated in a summary way the principles upon which, in my judgment, the re vision of the tariff should proceed. and indicated at least one new source of revenue that might be properly resorted to in order to avoid a future deficit. It is not necessary for me to repeat what I then said. "I venture to suggest that the vital business interests of the country re quire that the attention of the Con gress in this session be chiefly de voted to the consideration of the new tariff bill, and the less time giv en to other subjects of legislation in this session of Congress, the bet ter for the country. "WILLIAM H. TAFT. "The White House, March 16, 1909," PATROLLING FISHERIES VICTORIA, B. C. March 16--For the purpose of increasing the patrol of the halibut fishing grounds in Hecate straits, the British Columbia Salvage Co.'s steamer William Juliffe has been chartered by the Depart ment of marine and fisheries and wilj assist the fishery protection cruiser Kestrel in patrolling the northern fishing grounds this summer. The Marine and fisheries department has also purchased the steam trawler Newington from R. J. Fader of New Westminster for $42,000 for use with lighthouse tender Quadra .in the lighthouse and buoy service the Qua dia being found insufficient l. cope ready for service with the work. The Newington will arrive here in a few days to be made ready for service. NO CONFERENCE HELD. PASADENA. CaL, March 16--No conference of the railroad officials of the Harriman lines who have been here for the last two days will be held as reported. Several of the mem bers of the party have already left and Harrirman leaves Thursday. Har riman continues to assert that be ii in California merely for a rest. If anything was accomplished at the meeting, Harriman is at great pains to keep the results secret for he contented himself today with tell ing the newspapermen how he was enjoying the sunshine of Southern California and what l great country the Southwest is. He refused to talk about any railroad changes- The belief is general here that if any of the important changes hinted at here tofore are to be made, the announce ment of them will come after Harri man's return to New York. POPE RECOVERING. ROME, March 16. The Pope was today sufficiently recovered from his recent indisposition to receive the American Pilgrimage. -BE MURDERER KILLED ATIRRV LULLS DURING FIGHT FOR GUN THE WEAPON IS DISCHARGED WITH FATAL EFFECT. CHARLOTTESVILLE, March 16 John Armstrong Chaleoner, the former husband of Amelie Rives, the writer, fought for the possession of a revolver with John Gillard, an Englishman, at his- country home, "Merry Mills," last night The re volver was discharged and Gillard was killed. Chaleoner was arrested. Gillard came from Australia and was living three miles from "Merry Mills," his wife sought Chaleoners protection from her husband, who it is alleged threatened her life. She arrived at "Merry Mills," in advance of her husband and with her children was waiting in the dining room to tell her story when her husband en tered and attacked her, it is said, with a pair of tongs. Chaleoner then en tered the room and interfered and a scuffle ensued and Chaleoner drew a pistol to restrain the frenzied man. Gillard seized the pistol and tried to turn it on his wife.' Chaleoner grasp ed it and it was discharged, the bul let entering Gillard's temple. At the inquest the widow' said she wai posi tive her husband discharged the weapon in an effort to kill her. The body was kept af "Merry Mills" in the position in which it fell. The room still showed signs of the strug gle, the woman's hat in one corner and her hairpins scattered over the floor, the tongs were Sent from blows and were bloody and contained clumps of hair. Mrs. Gillard's head was badly cut. Chaleoner had fre-. quently befriended Gillard. BALLINGER MOVES DIVISION OFFICE Land Office at Portland Will be Transferred to Seattle and Division Headquarters Established WASHINGTON, D. C, March 16. Fred Dennett, Commissioner of the General Land Office, this morning, announced that I R. Gla vis, chief of field division No. 1, would be trans ferred to Seattle, and division head quarters established there as soon as necessary arrangements can be made in order to accommodate growing demands of service in Alaska. Inquiry indicates the probability ofj& complete rehabilitation of the system with reference to service con ditions,, and that Glavis will be pro moted as chief of all divisions under the new order of things, embracing ANOTHER CUBA nun First Real Uprising Under the New Order cf Govern ment NOT DETERMINED HOW BAD President Gomez Declares he Will Stamp it Out and Make an Ex ample of All Concerned and to Pursue and KiU All Taking Part. HAVANA, Cuba, March 16.-The first real uprising against the new Cuban republic occurred last night. How serious the trouble , is hard to determine. A sergeant of the run! guards, stationed at Vueltas,, Santa Clara province, with a party of 17 men took to the woods and the troops are in pursuit. While the movement is apparently unimport ant, numerically, all indications are that it is part of a widespread con spiracy. President Gomez declared it is his intention at suppressing the insurrec tion and making example of all con cerned. Orders have been issued to surround the fugitives, and take no prisoners if any resistance is encoun tered and not cease pursuit until all have been killed or captured. It was learned later that a conspiracy has been unearthed in which members of the rural guard at Placetai and at Vueltas are concerned. A former captain of the rurales, corporal and two civilians were arrested on charge of complicity in insurrectionary movement The dispatch of troops from Havana is taken as an indica tion that the present situation is now more serious than even authorities are willing to admit Rumors are current that a general recently dis missed from the rural guard has ar rived at Oriente at the head of 200 men, but it is doubtful if there is any truth in the report. IN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PITTSBURG, March 16. An nouncement is made here that the Rev. W. L. McEwen, pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church of this city, will be a candidate for the mod eratorship of the next general assem bly of the Presbyterian church of the United States of America. Dr. Mc Ewen has been pastor of the Third Church in this city for the last 15 years and is prominently identified with the leading Presbyterian inter ests of Pittsburg and Western Pen nsylvania. He is well known throughout the entire church and is a recognized leader among the for eigners in the synod of Pennsylvania. The assembly meets in Denver, Colo-, the third Thursday of May. several Western states, including California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho Nev.ada and Alaska. Several years ago complete over hauling was made in the system of field service, present chiefs of field di visions taking the place of agents in charge of special agents of the gen eral land office, and it is thought the present system that has been adopted is in nature of further improvement along these lines, the policy of which is accredited to Secretary of the In terior Ballinger, who is a Seattle man, and familiar with service condi tions in the West.